Rantings, ponderings, links, and stories of an ordinary guy.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Hugs Not Drugs
Oh, whoops! Can't have hugs either. An Oak Park Illinois school has banned hugging. I wonder if they can still wave to each other, or could that be considered a gang sign? I think the best thing we can do is to make sure our children stay locked in a room alone where they can attend class via internet. Hmmm, that could allow for masturbation, so that's probably not a good plan, better have video surveillance, I think the Patriot Act might already have the covered.
Generally, articles on Cracked.com should be considered satire. I'm sure that the article titled "What is the Monkeysphere?" is no different. However, it is an interesting thought. It would provide a convenient (but not simple) explanation to all of life's biggest problems. So have a read you sick little monkeys.
Pat Condell gets hundreds of e-mails a day, largely from persons trying to teach him about the true and right path to salvation of his soul. He responds here with a video.
Gotta love those people that care so much about the song "God Bless America" that they will throw eggs at the house of an atheist. The police think it was kids, I say it's 50/50.
The vandalism likely was the retaliatory work of youngsters, police Sgt. Mike Millett said -- since it came on the heels of the school incident and because one of the chalked words, "Jesus," was misspelled.
The credibility of the 9/11 Commission's report has been questioned by many people. Now there are Seven CIA Veterans that say it is a joke. Some of the ideas are that the whole thing was orchestrated by domestic persons in high positions of power with the intentions of sparking off a war on terror. The war on terror was partial justification (along with WMDs) for invading Iraq....with next stop, Iran. You can draw whatever conclusions you may.
Please get your children dedicated to Jesus. That way they can be used for whatever purpose he has intended for them, like the director of the Youth For Christ center did. Everyone has their part to play in God's plan...don't worry, this'll only hurt for a little while.
If there is one group of people out there that are standing firm to protect America's values, promote abstinence and combat the gay lifestyle, it's got to be the Republicans. Or maybe not. Republican Sex Offenders keeps track of the sex offenses in the news carried out by those lovable Republicans.
State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued the Almighty in Douglas County District Court last week.
Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused "widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants."Chambers also says God has caused "fearsome floods ... horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes.
He should be able to get a default judgment pretty easy.
Trent Reznor had some comments about the ridiculous prices of CDs, in Australia specifically. I feel that the message is relevant for the whole world of music fans. After his little commentary he goes on to play The Day The Whole World Went Away....enjoy!
On another note, I supported some independent artists today. I went to CDBaby.com and ordered 3 CDs from artists I've never heard of before, with shipping I spent $20. They have a boatload of CDs for $5 if you check it out. I feel a whole lot better paying the artists for their work rather than letting a major music label get any cut of it. They were really appreciative too, their email said this:
Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Monday, September 17th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!
Here's a nice little video that puts together a string of executive orders that show that perhaps now the constitution really is "Just a goddamn piece of paper."
Graham Barker has been collecting his belly button lint for 23 years. He claims title to the Guinness World Record for largest collection of naval fluff. The page asks such intriguing questions as:
Where does navel fluff come from? How much navel fluff is normal? Does every navel generate fluff?
He rounds out the web page with a nice stereoscopic view of a small pile of his naval fluff.
Dominionist Christianity has been working very hard to try to overtake our military and subvert it to further their own cause. An article on the Information Clearing House discusses how the Christian Taliban's latest plot was stopped.
Last month, the Pentagon pulled the plug on a plan to dispatch so-called "freedom packages" to U.S. troops in Iraq that included Bibles, proselytising materials in English and Arabic, and an apocalyptic computer game in which "soldiers for Christ" battle satanic "Global Community Peacekeepers"
Today I saw this list of 20 Famous Last Words. I found them interesting, especially Voltaire's. If you like them, go ahead and check out Last Words for more. If you have a clever idea for your tombstone, try it on for size right here.
Despite her status as a Christian, I often thought that Mother Teresa had some very insightful things to say. My favorite of them is this one:
We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Well, it seems as if I can now rest at ease. Mother Teresa had a secret, she was not convinced that there was a God. Perhaps she wasn't all bad after all, even though she led millions to believe she was a devout subject....maybe that makes her worse.
I'm a ham radio operator, a dad, a husband, and a computer geek. My latest interest is helping out with what I consider to be the next stage of evolution. Application of reason in all things religious. Religion has hindered our progress as a species for too long. More and more people are beginning to understand this. Some folks have a block that does not allow them to discern this truth. My posts on this blog are aimed at helping clear that block.
